The regular line of houses on either side, with the even pavements and straight, Cemented road, seemed to her like some desert place, as if everyone were dead, or a fire had raged and left it all desolate.
"Liza of Lambeth"
W. Somerset Maugham
This Saturday afternoon the street was full of life; no traffic came down Vere Street, and the Cemented space between the pavements was given up to children.
"Liza of Lambeth"
W. Somerset Maugham
They took out the soil for about twenty yards wide, and one deep, perhaps, till they came to a firm bottom; and filled up the whole with stones of all sizes, brought from Duffield, four miles up the river; Cemented with coarse mortar.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton